IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    421.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20220179351A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-09

    申请号:US17599803

    申请日:2020-03-18

    Inventor: Takashi KUSUKAWA

    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a frame side plate. A mounting surface of the frame side plate on which a first electrical board is mounted has a frame protruding plate. An electrical box has a box protruding plate overlapping a side surface of the frame protruding plate when assembling of the electrical box to the frame side plate is completed, and engaging portions for assembling protruding in a thickness direction from the box protruding plate. When the electrical box is assembled to the frame side plate, with the engaging portions for assembling in engagement with first engaged portions formed on a protruding side end of the frame protruding plate, the electrical box as a whole is turned around an axis parallel to an extending direction of the frame protruding plate with the engaged portions as a fulcrum, thereby restricting a trajectory of the electrical box during assembling.

    IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    422.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20220171312A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-02

    申请号:US17535239

    申请日:2021-11-24

    Inventor: Susumu TANIGUCHI

    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a body, a conveyance unit, an image carrier, a transfer unit, and a pre-transfer guide. The body has a sheet passage for conveying sheets along inner and outer conveyance surfaces mutually facing. The conveyance unit includes the outer conveyance surface and is supported pivotably between an open position and a closed position relative to the inner conveyance surface. The transfer unit rotatably supports a transfer roller. The pre-transfer guide includes a first guide on the outer conveyance surface and a second guide on the inner conveyance surface. The first guide has a contact segment protruding toward the second guide. The first guide and the transfer unit are supported independently swingably relative to the transfer unit. The first guide is urged toward the second, and the distance between the two guide surfaces is restricted by the contact segment touching a contacted portion.

    Sheet conveying apparatus, image processing apparatus, and conveyance control method

    公开(公告)号:US11350004B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-31

    申请号:US17189754

    申请日:2021-03-02

    Inventor: Akifumi Seto

    Abstract: A sheet conveying apparatus includes a pair of regulating units both of which are movable in a width direction in a document placement unit, a detection processing unit that detects a separation distance between the pair of regulating units, a restriction processing unit that restricts execution of a specific process of conveying a document when a difference between the separation distance detected at a specific timing and a reference distance exceeds a threshold value, and a cancellation processing unit that cancels the restriction on execution of the specific process when the separation distance detected after the restriction on execution of the specific process by the restriction processing unit is the same as the separation distance detected before the detection timing of the separation distance and on or after the specific timing.

    Developing device which supplies two-component developer containing toner and carrier and which discharges excessive developer and image forming apparatus therewith

    公开(公告)号:US11347164B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-31

    申请号:US17368027

    申请日:2021-07-06

    Inventor: Koji Suenami

    Abstract: A developing device includes a developer container, a developer carrier, and first and second members for stirring/conveying. The developing container has a first partition wall between first and second chambers, communication portions through which those chambers communicate at opposite ends of the first partition wall, a developer supply port, and a developer discharge portion. The first member stirs and conveys developer in the first chamber in a first direction. The second member stirs and conveys developer in the second chamber in a second direction and includes a regulating portion and a discharging blade. The developer container includes a second partition wall between the first chamber and the regulating portion. The second partition wall is lower than the first partition wall, and an upper end part of the second partition wall is between upper and lower end parts of the rotary shaft of the second stirring/conveying member.

    FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

    公开(公告)号:US20220163911A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-26

    申请号:US17456017

    申请日:2021-11-22

    Abstract: A fixing device includes a pair of rotating members and a heating part. The pair of rotating members holds a recording medium, passes the recording medium and thermally fixes toner on the recording medium. The heating part heats one rotating member of the pair of rotating members to increases a temperature of the rotating member. The heating part is PID or PI controlled. When power consumption of an apparatus including the pair of rotating members is not higher than a predetermined value, a PID coefficient or a PI coefficient used in the PID control or the PI control is set to be smaller than when the power consumption is higher than the predetermined value.

    IMAGE CARRIER UNIT AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME

    公开(公告)号:US20220155723A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-19

    申请号:US17526554

    申请日:2021-11-15

    Abstract: An image carrier unit includes an image carrier including a cylindrical main body portion and a pair of flange portions attached to both ends of the main body portion, a first cleaning member that rotates in contact under a prescribed pressure with an outer circumferential surface of the main body portion, a unit frame that rotatably supports the image carrier and the first cleaning member, and an image carrier protective cover that includes a cover main body extending in an axial direction of the image carrier and a side surface portion that is disposed on one end side of the cover main body. On the side surface portion, an image carrier holding portion is formed that performs positioning of the image carrier with respect to the unit frame and releases a pressure contact state between the image carrier and the first cleaning member.

    GRIPPING MECHANISM AND ASSEMBLY APPARATUS

    公开(公告)号:US20220152841A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-19

    申请号:US17432079

    申请日:2019-12-16

    Inventor: Satoshi ANDO

    Abstract: A gripping mechanism (3) includes a holder (31), a gripping roller (32), a first movable plate (331), a second movable plate (332), a first spring (341), and a second spring (342). The holder (31) houses the gripping roller (32). The first movable plate (331) and the second movable plate (332) pinch the gripping roller (32) inside the holder (31). The first spring (341) urges the first movable plate (331) toward the gripping roller (32). The second spring (342) urges the second movable plate (332) toward the gripping roller (32). The gripping mechanism (3) grips a gripped section (42) of a first component (4) between the first movable plate (331) and the gripping roller (32).

    IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF REDUCING THE NUMBER OF TIMES OF RETURNS FROM POWER SAVING MODE

    公开(公告)号:US20220147287A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-12

    申请号:US17516959

    申请日:2021-11-02

    Inventor: Tomoya KAWAGUCHI

    Abstract: An image forming device is provided with a signal output unit which outputs an interrupt signal when storage of a print job input from the outside in a memory is completed, a processor which switches the operation mode to a normal mode when an operation mode of the own device is a power saving mode when an interrupt signal output from the signal output unit is input, executes each of the print jobs stored in the memory, and switches the operation mode to the power saving mode after the completion of printing, and a signal delay unit which can delay the input of the interrupt signal output from the signal output unit to the processor when the operation mode is the power saving mode.

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